Epigenesis

• In geology, changes in the mineral composition of a rock because of outside influences, e.g. the injection of a vein of ore into existing rock.
• Epigenesis (biology)
  Epigenesis (biology)
  
  In biology, epigenesis has at least two distinct meanings:* the unfolding morphogenesis in an organism, and in particular the development of a plant or animal from an egg or spore through a sequence of steps in which cellular differentiation and organs form;...
   describes morphogenesis and development of an organism
• Epigenesis (creative intelligences) is the philosophical/theological/esoteric idea that since the mind was given to the human being, it is this original creative impulse, epigenesis, which has been the cause of all our development

See also

• Epigenetics
  Epigenetics
  
  In biology, the term epigenetics refers to Heritability changes in phenotype or gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence ....
   refers to changes in gene expression due to mechanisms other than changes in DNA sequence